tekke

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n. A dervish or Sufi lodge or place of worship

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From Turkish tekke. (Wiktionary)

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The site was/is? also sacred to the Sufis - a "heretic" sect of Islam who worshipped the goddess principle in all creation: The term tekke convent applies to a building designed specifically for gatherings of a Sufi brotherhood, or tariqa, and may have referred to an earlier feature of the location.

Such attractions as the buildings possess are due rather to the richly coloured tiles with which many of them are adorned, or to inscriptions, like the Kufic inscription, dated A.D. 944, on the ruined _tekke_ of the

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"Every tekke, or prayer lodge, of the dervishes had a garden which was shielded from the outside by exterior walls. The garden was a heart to the many buildings which, like the projecting wings of a great bird, would make up the tekke."- Shems Friedlander, 'Graze in the Meadows of the Garden', rumisociety.com.